Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nick's problem was no different from that of other harried mayors of big cities in the U.S.: how to raise cash for increased municipal services and capital improvements when more and more of the people who work in the city-and demand the improvements-live in and spend their dollars in the suburbs. Early in his term Big Nick set up committees to study Denver's needs and to find ways and means of raising the money for an improvement program. The mayor's own suggestion: a city income tax. To the folks in metropolitan Denver...
...Bags & Insults. Disregarding recommendations of his own citizens' committee (which suggested a bond issue and such new service charges as a trash-collection and auto users' fee), the mayor and his nine-man city council adopted an income tax ordinance without a public vote. Shouts of outrage echoed in the Rockies, as the Denver citizenry dramatized memories of the Boston Tea Party by waving tea bags at protest meetings and crying, "No taxation without representation!"* Newspapers took sides, and, surprisingly, the hard-hit Chamber of Commerce, figuring that the tax would drive still more people into the suburbs...
...mayor himself was incensed. Driving near a Denver shopping center one day, he saw an anti-tax woman circulating petitions, climbed out of his car to demand that she be chased off the property. Publicly, he charged that his biggest opposition came from "non-Denverites and crackpots," and so alienated the few leading businessmen and professional men who had remained on the sidelines. On public panel programs he would all but stop the show by insulting his opponents. When a petition was circulated for his recall, Big Nick allowed that he would like to sign it, "because I would like...
...Nuovo, where the kings of Anjou once ruled the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. A huge sign went with them: "For the love of your Naples, do not resign! The ship is in peril, you must stay at the helm!" The mob was out in defense of Naples' Mayor Achille Lauro, the flamboyant millionaire shipowner and Monarchist whose freewheeling administration has won him the title of Il Re del Mezzogiorno ("The King of the South...
Immaculate in a dark, double-breasted suit and light-colored tie, jaunty Mayor Lauro, 70, pushed through the throng into the council chamber. He went, not to the mayor's chair, but to a seat among his Monarchist councilors...